JUDGMENT

Teunon, J. - In this ease one Lolit Mohan Singh Roy was plated on his trial before the Sessions Court of Hooghly on a charge of murder. The trial was by Jury and by their unanimous verdict the Jury found him not guilty. Accepting the verdict, the learned Sessions Judge acquitted the accused, and against this order of acquittal the Local Government has preferred the present appeal. The person whose death is in question is a young girl or woman, Taralika Debi, the 2nd wife of the accused. She was about 16 years of age while the accused is over 50, and the case for the prosecution is that on the night of the 23rd March 1920, or early morning of the 24th, while they were in their bed-room together the accused, from motives of jealousy, attacked his wife with a sword, inflicting many injuries on her neck, head, face and other parts of her person and causing practically instantaneous death.

2. The first information of the murder was lodged at the Thanah (Pursura) by the accused himself at 7 A.m. on the 24th of March and the main ground taken in this appeal is, that this first information, or all but the first portion thereof, marked "Bxhibit 21," has been erroneously excluded from